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What does */5 9-17 * * 1-5 mean?

*/5 9-17 * * 1-5

Runs every 5 minutes during 9am–5pm, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

This is a cron schedule. Cron is the standard syntax used by Unix/Linux crontab, CI pipelines, and job schedulers to say when a task should run.

Next run times (UTC)
Mon Jul 20 2026 09:00:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 09:05:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 09:10:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 09:15:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 09:20:00 UTC
Mon Jul 20 2026 09:25:00 UTC

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